For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You are all a lost generation.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.

You're the way, you are the light. Let's go to illuminate the world.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.